Is this rape?

Someone had sex with me without my consent. Is that rape?

Someone had sex with me without my consent. Is that rape?

Were the circumstances such that he could reasonably have believed you consented? If yes then its not rape.

Assuming that they put their penis in you, 999tigger has posted the legal definition for England & Wales - it's similar in the rest of the UK - but..



.. that's looking at it only from the legal standpoint. A reasonable belief in consent is indeed a defence to a charge of rape, but the belief may have been mistaken, for example, and the person they stuck their penis can quite rightly regard themselves as having been 'raped'.

If my original assumption was wrong, for example if this is 'why can't women be guilty of rape' trolling, then non-consensual sex is still an offence: 'assault by penetration' if anything (a finger or object for example) ended up inside your vagina or anus (maximum penalty: life) or 'sexual assault' if it didn't (maximum penalty: ten years, if you're not a child, longer if you are).

Cant really see your point. If they had a reasonable belief then they would be found not guilty. Non consensual sex is ofc an offence, just not rape unless it involved penile penetration.

I said that. The bit you're missing is that a rape is still a rape even if someone isn't convicted of it.

Looking at it another way, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly were all murdered, even though no-one was convicted of their murders.

Except the difference is one has been through a trial and someone was found not guilty, whereas those cases were never brought to trial.